Quote Originally Posted by Voorheez
Hakka, I feel the complete opposite - I think tracks from a while back were under-appreciated because they was so much good stuff around at the time they were released. Good tracks now are far more appreciated because there are so few around. Thus a track that I would have thought poor a year ago becomes decent enough now, because it's kinda like a drought of good tracks at the moment.
And Paul, I know what you mean, but it certainly doesn't apply to me with what i'm saying here - I like all forms of dance, I used to listen to funky house quite a bit, and I used to love trance and I feel exactly the same about these genres of dance, it's not just hard trance/hardstyle.

This is just my opinion, and hopefully everyone on this board now knows me enough to know that this isn't the kind of thing I would come out with filppantly.
Fair play mate... however I fear we both have the same opinion but don't release it - I think where you feel not as many good tracks are out at the moment I feel there is, but perhaps value them differently when looking over time. I'm juding todays tracks by todays standards. Admittedly, there's tracks I could reel off now that are amazing from years ago... however I still think that if they came out now and never existed in the past, they would not be as popular as they were. Apart of a track becomming brilliant is its ability to be unique and stand out. Not because its radically different, but because it opens doors and new ideas. Todays music has lots of ideas... but they are not as deep and as original as the great releases from 2 years ago.